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China Survival Guide: How to Avoid Travel Troubles and Mortifying Mishaps

This first-ever humorous travel guide on China both dishes the dirt on the myriad travel mishaps that may befall any unsuspecting tourist and explains how to avoid them! Possible danger zones debunked include airports, hotels, hospitals, taxis, and bathrooms. Readers will learn essential skills like how to haggle, exchange currencies, cross the street, decipher menus, say useful phrases in Chinese, and more. The guide comes complete with survival tips on etiquette, a map, and resource lists. Don't leave home for China without it!

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Veteran travelers Qinand Larry Herzbergare Chinese language and culture professors at Calvin College in Michigan.

Audience
adult
Length
short · 192 pages

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